Meteors

Looking up at the sky is so passée in the modern world that few of us do it, which is probably why perfectly normal sights are misidentified when observed under uncommon circumstances. For example, everybody knows what a plane looks like, flying high in the sky, right?…

Canon's new 202x205mm sensor next to a traditional 35mm (36x24mm) sensor used in high end DSLRs. Image courtesy of Canon Inc.

Canon, the digital camera giant, has just announced the development of a new CMOS sensor with dimensions of 202 x 205mm, which is about 48 times the area of film or sensors used in traditional 35mm photography, and some 108 times the area of sensors currently used in most consumer DSLRs by Canon and others.…